Monday, April 30, 2012

The TBR Knowledge base release 1. is the first half of our research findings to be published online.
The second volume covers the .30 to .458 calibers along with
Proprietary cartridge designs and will be published live in due course.

Introduction

The information you are about to read is not an ordinary, general overview of hunting cartridges.
This Knowledge base is the culmination of 20 years intensive field
research and as new bullet designs emerge, this research continues. The data base on this website is and will be updated accordingly.

As of 2011, over 7000 head of game were killed and autopsied for the initial body of work. To obtain a set of results, animals were taken at differing ranges, differing shot placement and angles. The tests then had to be retaken several times with each cartridge and each bullet to ensure repeatable results. Naturally, while testing so many cartridges over so many years, firearms expertise occurred by attrition.

In 2007, based on demand, we formed the company Terminal Ballistics Research ltd.
TBR has three main divisions including rifle accurizing services,
guided and tutorial hunting and the research division which you are now
viewing.

Essentially, the goal of our hunting cartridge research is to give
shooters a set of expectations regarding both ammunition and firearms.
Where a comment is made in the ahead pages stating that a cartridge
will do such and such on impact, readers can expect those results to be
clinically factual and repeatable in the field rather than based on
passing opinion.

To get the most out of this research, readers are encouraged to think
about their expectations of themselves, their rifles and their
cartridges.
By studying the game killing section, the reader is able to start his
or her own decision making process based on a solid foundation.
In the cartridge section, the reader can make comparisons of various
cartridges, look for similar results in his or her own cartridge and by
cross referencing, will be able to notice and understand common trends
in performance.

There is certainly no single cartridge to suit every hunter as each hunter has such varied needs. Some hunters are recoil shy, some have sustained shoulder injuries. Some folk are primarily woods hunters, others find their game on the open tops. Some hunters have a generous disposable income, others are on a severly limited budget. Regardless of the research presented here, readers must still make their own decisions regarding optimum cartridge usage.

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On 30 April 1864 Began yankee General Nathanael Banks Red River
Campaign in Louisiana. It was a complete failure, but Louisiana's
governor Henry Watkins Allen, commissioned a report composed of
eye-witnesses affidavits. I have seen this book, even used it. At one
place the yankees were camped across the river on a Sunday and the
people of the town came out to promenade as they did every Sunday.
They were civilians, yet they fired on them. But the worst treatment
was reserved for slaves, who were encouraged to follow after the Union
army and told that the Confederates would kill them when they
returned. Once these poor people had left their homes, they were
abandoned. Thousands died. The eye-witness reports are horrifying. I
had to put the book down, and walk away.

Throughout the Republican presidential primaries, Ron Paul has done well
with young Americans, drawing thousands to his Youth for Ron Paul
rallies. However, some of his young fans are still a few years shy of
heading to the polls.

Ron Paul’s presidential campaign today claimed victory in this
weekend’s district caucuses in Louisiana, boldly predicting that the
Texas congressman will be in control of the state’s delegation to the
Republican National Convention.

The Paul campaign said the candidate won “four and a half of six
congressional district caucuses, securing 111 of 150 — or 74 percent —
of (the) delegates” allocated as part of Saturday’s district caucus
process.

“Ron Paul’s victory shows his delegate-attainment strategy is working
and demonstrates that the media and Washington pundits are
underestimating his influence in the nominating process,” said Ron Paul
2012 national campaign manager John Tate.

Tate predicted that “the Louisiana win forecasts a prominent role for
Ron Paul” at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. “It also
signals that the convention will feature a spirited discussion over
whether conservatism will triumph over the status quo, all in relation
to the end game of defeating President Obama.”

The Paul campaign claimed victory in Louisiana’s Congressional Districts 1, 2, 5 and 6, and a split decision in District 4.

“Yesterday’s result shows the changing dynamic among grassroots
conservative activists dedicated to promoting a Republican platform that
adheres to the Constitutional values Dr. Paul represents,” Paul’s
Louisiana state director, Pete Chamberlain, said today. “Back-room
dealing and insider politics are no match for the grassroots enthusiasm
that is the hallmark of the Ron Paul campaign. Yesterday, Ron Paul’s
dedicated Louisiana supporters showed what passionate, persistent
activism can achieve when centered around a consistent message of
freedom and prosperity.”

GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney now has the support of
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and most of the party’s establishment
leadership, so he is sure to receive a significant number of at-large or
automatic delegates.

Salmon P. Chase’s ignorance of the Constitution
was profound, and like a monarch saw subjects in the States, not free
citizens as the Framer’s intended. Only States themselves can establish
the privilege of suffrage, not the agent created by the States. That
same Constitution holds that treason can only be committed against a
State, by waging war against it or adhering to its enemies, which is
precisely what Chase and his revolutionary cohorts were engaged in.
Secession was a valid act, the same valid act which 13 colonies
committed against England.

His real objective was loyal voters in the defeated South to vote
Republican, and using them to perpetually hold the South in subjection
to his rule. The radical Republican method of firm pacification of the
South involved the Union League terrorist organization which taught the
freedmen to hate their white neighbors and keep them from the polls, all
to assure the ascendancy of Republican hegemony. Had there been no
Union League, there would have been no Ku Klux Klan.

Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman
North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission
www.ncwbts150.com
"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"

Chase’s Gross Misunderstanding of Loyalty

“Salmon P. Chase….emerged as an early advocate of self-determination as
the best solution to disorder in the South. Throughout the war, Chase
argued that the federal government’s policy toward the rebellious South
should be based on the principle that “the loyal citizens of a State
constitute a State.” He defined as loyal those “who desire the
suppression of the rebellion, and consent to the means which the
government found necessary for its suppression.”

Loyal citizens included virtually all of the black population together
with those whites who accepted emancipation and Negro suffrage. Chase
thought it was vital that the federal government make “no distinctions
between colored and white loyalists,” and he attributed the shortcomings
of Lincoln’s efforts in Louisiana, where Chase believed “the old
secession element is rapidly gaining the ascendancy,” to the exclusion
of blacks from the ballot.

Chase believed that universal suffrage, incorporating the principle of
equal suffrage for blacks, would provide the foundation necessary for
universal amnesty and for the final reconciliation of North and South.
Touring the South in May 1865, Chase wrote to Secretary of War Stanton
that “universal suffrage is essential to thorough pacification.” Most
important, he believed, “the white population will acquiesce in this
policy without serious opposition if it is clearly announced, &
firmly but kindly pursued.”

Like all reformers, Chase accepted the necessity of a period of military
reconstruction and, indeed, insisted as chief justice that “military
rule must be supreme” until civil order and civil law could be fully and
safely restored. Similarly….Chase stood with most reformers in
opposing [Gerrit] Smith’s dictum that the rebels loyalty to the de facto
Confederate government could not be distinguished morally from unionist
loyalty to the federal government. “If the rebels waging war against
the government are not traitors, Chase responded, “secession was a valid
act; and our war was one of conquest.”

Large wind farms might have a
warming effect on the local climate, research in the United
States showed on Sunday, casting a shadow over the long-term
sustainability of wind power.Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from burning
fossil fuels contribute to global warming, which could lead to
the melting of glaciers, sea level rise, ocean acidification,
crop failure and other devastating effects, scientists say.

In a move to cut such emissions, many nations are moving
towards cleaner energy sources such as wind power.

The world's wind farms last year had the capacity to produce
238 gigawatt of electricity at any one time. That was a 21
percent rise on 2010 and capacity is expected to reach nearly
500 gigawatt by the end of 2016 as more, and bigger, farms
spring up, according to the Global Wind Energy Council.

Researchers at the State University of New York at Albany
analysed the satellite data of areas around large wind farms in
Texas, where four of the world's largest farms are located, over
the period 2003 to 2011.

The results, published in the journal Nature Climate Change,
showed a warming trend of up to 0.72 degrees Celsius per decade
in areas over the farms, compared with nearby regions without
the farms.

"We attribute this warming primarily to wind farms," the
study said. The temperature change could be due to the effects
of the energy expelled by farms and the movement and turbulence
generated by turbine rotors, it said.

McALLEN, Texas (AP) - An unprecedented surge of children caught trudging through South Texas scrublands or crossing at border ports of entry without their families has sent government and nonprofit agencies scrambling to expand their shelter, legal representation and reunification services. On any given day this year, the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement has been caring for more than 2,100 unaccompanied child immigrants.

The influx came to light last week when 100 kids were taken to Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio for temporary housing. It was the first time the government has turned to the Defense Department - now, 200 boys and girls younger than 18 stay in a base dormitory.

While the issue of unaccompanied minors arriving in the U.S. isn't new, the scale of the recent increase is. From October 2011 through March, 5,252 kids landed in U.S. custody without a parent or guardian - a 93 percent increase from the same period the previous year, according to data released by the Department of Health and Human Services. In March alone, 1,390 kids arrived.

"The whole community right now is in triage mode," said Wendy Young, executive director of Kids in Need of Defense, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that matches pro bono attorneys with unaccompanied minors navigating the immigration system. "It's important that the resources and the capacity meet the need, and we're not quite there yet."

Unfortunately
for the causes of sound reasoning and good government, many people have
been persuaded that tolerance is an unquestionable absolute virtue.
This is unthinking nonsense. Tolerance can be an important civic virtue,
if it facilitates the peace, safety, and well-being of a society. But
tolerating actions that have a strong potential to destroy or disrupt
society’s peace, safety, and well-being is extremely unwise. Tolerating
your neighbor’s cat in your backyard is an act of courtesy, but
tolerating his pet diamondback rattler in your backyard is insanity.
Tolerance can be a valuable civic virtue, but tolerating great evil or
great danger is both evil and foolish.

Yet
we see daily instances in our media of people using unqualified
“tolerance” to argue for radical social changes that have strong
potentials for social chaos. Highly destructive social agendas are
often pushed as “civil rights” even though they infringe on the civil
rights of others and the moral stability of the nation. We see these
misguided concepts of tolerance and distorted concepts of civil rights
shouting down reasonable deliberation on their impact on national
security, public safety, and the most important social fabric that holds
any nation together—marriage and family. Without these no nation can
prosper in freedom and safety. Yet we are a nation that is hastily
throwing out centuries of solid moral traditions and burying volumes of
credible scientific research to promote a radical homosexual agenda..

Unfortunately,
the radical homosexual agenda is not about reasoned standards of
tolerance and civil rights. It is certainly not about high standards of
medical and social research. These have been sacrificed to the national
political correctness agenda surrounding homosexual issues. Truth has
taken a back seat to fashionable politics and misguided ideologies. The
radical homosexual agenda is about normalizing homosexuality and
proclaiming it as virtuous. It is a militant Revolutionary ideology that
must punish any resistance to its new status. Part of that agenda must
therefore be to undermine, discredit, and destroy Judeo-Christian
teachings on sexual morality, marriage, and family. Although most of the
shouting by its leadership is directed at overturning these Scriptural
teachings, this seems to go right over the heads of many people. It is
no wonder. In the last 50 years, America has slipped down a path of
Biblical ignorance and irreverent disregard for Scriptural truth. This
decline has put the nation in a moral, ethical, and spiritual tailspin
from which it may not be able to recover. The resulting spiritual and
moral blindness has paved the way for a militant homosexual agenda and a
staggering array of leftist perversions of political justice.

Homosexuality
is not a virtue. It is a pathology with painful health and social
consequences. According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly
two-thirds of all AIDS cases in the U.S. are directly attributable to
homosexual activity. Yet they only represent two percent of the
population—not 10 percent as claimed by the badly flowed Kinsey report.
This means that homosexuals are 147 times more likely to acquire and
spread AIDS.

AIDS is by no means the only problem. According to the research of Robert Knight (Air Force Times,
December 1992), homosexual youths are 23 times more likely to contract a
sexually transmitted disease as heterosexual youths. Male homosexuals
are 14 times more likely to have had syphilis than male heterosexuals.
Lesbians are 19 times more likely to carry syphilis as heterosexual
women. John A. Eidsmoe gives three other research reports with similar
results in his 1992 book compiling the case against homosexuals in the
military. The Obama Administration ignored all such health and military
performance research data in recommending that homosexuals be able to
serve openly in the military.

Kinsey
and other researchers found that homosexuals average more than 250
partners during their lifetime. This exposes the homosexual agenda for
gay and lesbian marriage to be a showboat political platform for their
radical agenda rather than seeking lifetime companionship. Again, their
real goal is to discredit and destroy the Judeo-Christian concept of
one-man-one-woman marriage and family. According to both U.S (Dr. John
R. Diggs, 2002). and Dutch research, homosexual marriage actually
increases promiscuity and spreads disease faster.

Homosexual
practices also increase the risk of various infections. Over 90 percent
engage in anal intercourse with risks of fecal and urine contamination.
Their cancer rate is 12 times higher than heterosexuals. According
Diggs (2002), homosexuality knocks 20 years off a gay male lifespan. A
young gay male of 20 years has only a 32 percent chance of making it to
age 65. AIDS hospitalization also costs 7 times more than cancer
hospitalization. Many more shocking research reports could have been
cited on the homosexual healthcare disaster.

Of
serious concern to the military in adapting to the Obama
Administration’s open homosexuality policies is that one third of all
child molestations involve homosexual activity. This means that
homosexuals are 16.5 times more likely to engage in child molestations
than heterosexuals, which could be a major issue in keeping military
bases safe for dependent children.

According
to Williams and Weinberg (1972), 77 percent of homosexuals received
honorable discharges from the armed forces versus 98 percent for
heterosexuals. In this report, homosexuals were more than 11 times more
likely to receive an other than honorable discharge as heterosexuals.
Although many of President Obama’s supporters have cited anecdotal
instances of gay and lesbian heroism in the military, these appear to be
the exception rather than the rule. In any case, Obama’s political
desires were rammed through Congress with little concern for their
future consequences.

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.

Thank you

I would just like you to know how so very glad I am that I found your blog. I have learned more history from you and the many links that you post than I have from reading all my history books. I can never thank you enough for the education you are freely giving me. It is priceless. And eye opening.

Many times I will not comment, but that does not mean I am not reading and learning.

You sir, are an educator. Thank you.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

Good morning Mr. Townsend,

Just to let you know I have finally finished that massive tome on General Lee. I never knew 1/10th of what a great man he was. No wonder the South is so proud of him! So sad that we have few men of his caliber today. We need them desperately. I have learned more history through you and your blog than I thought I could ever learn. I am very grateful to you. Thank you so much for taking time to answer my e-mail. And thank you for your blog and for opening my eyes.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

".......So good to hear from you! And also so pleased you are converting more of us Yankees! You have no idea how many people you have taught. And how many are so grateful to you for showing us the truth."

Your faithful friend,

Phylis

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I have learned more history from you than all the years I was supposed to be in school (and not out hunting or fishing).

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